Other than the photographic lie of tidy living (I cleaned for about an hour before the apartment photo session; I am a slob.), the pictures pretty much speak for themselves—in particular those (much anticipated, yes??) of the bathroom (where no amount of cleaning helps). The place isn’t so bad otherwise, though, even if it’s small and “L” shaped. It came fully furnished, so the occupant’s task seems obvious: cover up the many, many hideous white surfaces as fast as possible, and use lots of color. This is part of my anti-(eventual) Seasonal Affective Disorder campaign—supplemented by some vitamin D3 tablets my dad gave me before I left. It may seem a little premature since, as you can see in the other pictures, the weather in Heidelberg has been really great. But I'm not about to be hoodwinked by a little Indian summer; I've watched enough German World War II movies (for e.g. Brecht’s Mother Courage) for it to seem perfectly reasonable to expect about the worst weather planet Earth has to offer. Living in Seattle for undergraduate, I realized about 3 years too late that I should probably have had some plan of action against the rain/darkness in any of the numerous apartments I inhabited—like buying a bed frame or at least a box spring, saying “no” to a gray duvet, replacing my brown metal folding “desk chair,” etc. So anyway, all that’s to explain the aesthetic going on here, including the sort of awful, sort of awesome, but definitely shimmery green curtains.
And, the very last picture is of the view out our window--12th floor looking out at a low mountain and a construction zone.
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